Downtown doesn't slow down! Check out 10 new businesses and some great upcoming events, many continuing through the holidays! If you're considering a vacation, Holiday Stay & Play makes it easy for you to enjoy unique holiday packages at premier hotels in Downtown L.A. Enjoy your vacation close to home, finish your holiday shopping, and discover a hotbed of culture and entertainment in Downtown. For restaurants, nightlife, entertainment, sports, and more, come join us!

Bark Avenue has served Downtown for 5 years, and now offers a second location featuring a fenced outdoor dining area, hourly daycare, grooming, a lounge with coffee and HDTV, and Wi-Fi internet. Don't miss the grand opening on Saturday, November 15, featuring Disney's Bolt and the Bolt Across America Tour.

Caliyogurt is known for its fresh, healthy ingredients that will satisfy and leave you feeling energized! Fresh berries, whole nuts, exotic fruits, even coconut shavings served over fresh frozen yogurt, what else do you need?

Have a special occasion coming up? Don't miss Steven Arroyo's new brasserie in the Biscuit Company Lofts. This fine French restaurant in the Arts District features exquisite food, a great wine list, and a charming interior of bricks and lights on strings.

204 W. 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(213) 622-3493
Daily: 10am-6pm

Crack Gallery

This new clothing boutique and art gallery carries unique clothes and accessories for both men and women. Located on the corner of 6th and Spring, the store will also be open late during the Downtown Art Walk, exhibiting the artwork decorating the walls.

Boasting fresh ingredients, great-tasting Italian food, and generous portions for the price, Johnnie's is a great new addition to the California Plaza. Although Johnnie's is known for its New York style pizza, you'll also enjoy salads, pastas, calzones, and sandwiches.

One of L.A. and Orange County's favorite music venues since 1985, Safari Sam's has relocated from Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood to the Regent Theatre on Main Street. Safari Sam's is an all-ages restaurant, club, and music venue with an eclectic mix of performances.

Versus L.A. Nightclub opened in the former Stock Exchange, following much renovation and historic restoration. Forecast as a "marquee destination of world-wide DJs and performers," Versus features three floors of nightlife bliss, including an intimate lounge, a second-floor dance area and balcony, and a VIP room on the third floor.

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Stay close to home and take advantage of affordable holiday packages at premier hotels in Downtown Los Angeles. Experience world-class art, music, theater and more. Take care of holiday shopping and enjoy a tremendous range of dining and nightlife. With so much to do, the holidays are a great time to visit the heart of Los Angeles.

Broadway's most talked about new musical is now the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years. Spring Awakening is a groundbreaking fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll, celebrating the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, a poignancy and a passion you will never forget.

Featuring music, dance, poetry and spoken-word performances, local and international artists address contemporary universal themes, creating lively cross cultural dialogue. A focus on presenting and supporting the development of under-represented artists and their unique stories is a highlight of the Festival.

"A terrific new history play... an Elizabethan whodunit... a funny and blistering portrait of an age far less golden that it is widely believed to have been." A young playwright is brutally and mortally stabbed. William Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Sir Walter Raleigh are suspects, and everyone has a hidden agenda.

The first major retrospective to be mounted in the U.S., this exhibit includes key selections from Kippenberger’s entire career: Paintings, sculpture, installations, photographs, posters, books, and more. Kippenberger’s life and work were centered on the role of the artist in the culture and within the system of art.

Now – January 11

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Japanese American National Museum
369 E. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the California Community Foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists, this exhibition illustrates the cultural emergence of the most innovative and exciting visual art made in Los Angeles over the past 20 years – including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, video and film, and experimental media.

This multi-channel video installation responds to conditions and questions that have arisen since March 2003, taking the U.S. context as an initial point of view. While 2003 marks the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by U.S. military forces, the conflict reaches backwards and forwards in history and memory, with few boundaries.

Bizet's sizzling opera springs to vivid life in this production that originated at Madrid's Teatro Real. Emilio Sagi directs this great masterpiece of the lyric theatre, featuring the ravishing Mezzo-soprano Viktoria Vizin as Carmen and Tenor Marcus Haddock is the obsessive and self-destructive Don José.

In celebration of our 10-year anniversary, Ciudad invites you to try some of their premium drinks and dishes – at discounted prices – for the entire month of November! Plus, daily prize giveaways and a 10% discount on parties of 10!

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